termagant
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The beach was alive with angry rollers, while the Termagant was still under easy sail, hovering up and down the coast before my factory, evidently meditating the propriety of another pill to provoke my notice.
From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Mayer, Brantz
Our adieus to New Sestros were not very painful, and on the evening of the same day the Termagant hove to off the bold and beautiful hills of Cape Mount.
From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Mayer, Brantz
I would have such a fellow whipped for o'er-doing Termagant; it out-herods Herod.
From The Art of Public Speaking by Carnagey, Dale
Ay, it was a big one, you see, and Dick Jones, one of the men of the Termagant, told me it was sold for that.
From The Red Eric by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
He had piloted the Termagant safely into her harbor.
From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by Stoddard, W. O.
Vocabulary lists containing termagant
"The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving
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